Sergio Vieira de Mello, who was killed in a bomb attack in Baghdad, will be brought back to his native Brazil for a ceremony before burial in France. workers to a Brazilian plane at the airport in Baghdad, August 22, 2003. The United Nations immediately withdraws all nonessential employees.Ī coffin containing the body of the U.N.special envoy to Iraq, Sergio Vieira de Mello, is carried by U.N. special representative to Iraq, and 22 members of his staff. headquarters in Iraq, killing in the process Sérgio Vieira de Mello, U.N. August 19, 2003Ī suicide bomber driving an explosives-filled cement mixer destroys the U.N. The manhunt that led to their demise had yet to find Saddam himself or many of his top aides. troops during a raid in the northern city of Mosul. With violence beginning to coalesce into organized resistance to the U.S.-led occupation, Saddam’s sons, Uday and Qusay, are killed by U.S. The order, coupled with an earlier decision to purge Baathists from the government, has lasting repercussions. Paul Bremer III, head of the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq, signs an order disbanding the Iraqi army and intelligence services, sending hundreds of thousands of well-armed men into the streets. Photo by Larry Downing/FILE KL/GN/GAC/REUTERS May 23, 2003Īfter two weeks on the job, L. Bush delivering a speech to crew aboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, as the carrier steamed toward San Diego, California on May 1, 2003. soldiers pull down a statue of Saddam in Baghdad’s Firdos Square. Three weeks after the invasion, Iraqi civilians and U.S. U.S., British, and other coalition forces quickly overwhelm the Iraqi Army, though elements loyal to Saddam who will form the core of a postwar insurgency fight on. That initial effort to “decapitate” Iraq’s leadership with air strikes fails, clearing the way for a ground invasion. “These are opening stages of what will be a broad and concerted campaign,” the president says. forces have begun a military operation into Iraq. Meanwhile, questions linger over Iraq’s fractious political situation. and allied troop deaths, and more than 100,000 Iraqi civilians have been killed. In the years since, there have been over 4,700 U.S. Saddam was captured, tried, and hanged and democratic elections were held. When WMD intelligence proved illusory and a violent insurgency arose, the war lost public support. forces invaded Iraq vowing to destroy Iraqi weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and end the dictatorial rule of Saddam Hussein.
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